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Welcome to the legislation.gov.uk community editorial wiki. It's where you can find editorial documentation and guidance and where you can share your knowledge and experiences to help others. Contributing is easy - have a go! Adding examples of the more unusual or challenging editorial tasks, and how you've solved them, for example, will really bring pages to life and make them a useful tool for others.
Using the Wiki
Below is a summary of the key areas of the wiki that can be used as a starting point for browsing the content:
Introduction to Revising Legislation If you are a new editor or are simply interested in how we go about producing the revised content on legislation.gov.uk then this document aims to give you an overview of our processes.
Editorial Principles A selection of documents outlining the core principles of our editorial process.
Preparation Tasks The preparation stage of our process is made up of several tasks which taken together prepare new legislation and its effects on existing legislation for publication on legislation.gov.uk. The documentation in this area covers 'identify effects' and 'record effects' work.
Editorial Update The update stage involves carrying through the effects of new legislation into a specific item of affected legislation by editing the text and adding appropriate annotations to give authority for the amendments. The documentation in this area includes detailed instructions on how to carry out specific amendments.
In the main we anticipate editors will refer to this wiki whilst trying to complete specific tasks. We have therefore organised the content around the editorial tasks. The high level categories available to browse using the navigation bar at the top of each page are:
- Revising Legislation
- Editorial Principles
- Preparation Tasks
- Editorial Update
- Corrective Work
Editors can also look for specific words and phrases by using the 'search' options.
Contributing
Anyone with an account can contribute to the content of the wiki. We have produced a style guide which should be referred to when adding content in order to help ensure that the content of the wiki remains consistent and accurate. The style guide sets out some basic 'rules' for how new entries should be drafted and includes some useful guidance on html tagging for those wanting to include additional information such as tables and images. All content added will be subject to approval by a senior member of the editorial team at The National Archives.